Timor-Leste’s new Prime Minister, Rui Araujo, has inherited a policy of decentralising the nation’s governance. Given capacity issues, this process is unlikely to bring broader-based rural development to Timor-Leste in the short term. But, if […]
For entire month of February, Rwandans will continue with the process of voting their grassroots leaders. Voting officially began on Monday (February 22, 2016). This normally happens after every five years in all the 36,000 […]
This paper examines the effects of competition for favors on the prevalence and perceptions of corruption across Russian regions. Perceptions of corruption might differ from incidence because they are not necessarily based on personal experience. […]
Myanmar’s Union government collects much of the trillions of Kyat generated by oil, gas, gemstones and other minerals each year, primarily through its state-owned economic enterprises (SEEs). In the face of such centralized control over revenue, […]
Indonesia has adopted community-driven development for more than 15 years. When it began in 1997 as a World Bank-funded program, its aim was poverty reduction through community empowerment. While initially, the program focused on small-scale […]
Access to safe and affordable water is not only a basic human right, it is essential to reduce poverty and to promote social equity. Yet in many parts of East Africa, poor people have found it […]
Why do some countries redistribute more to poorer regions than others? This paper explores which factors explain variation in the degree of interregional redistribution among countries between 1983 and 2010. The main argument is that […]
Ghana is one of Africa’s most urbanised – and rapidly urbanising – countries. In the past three decades, the number of city dwellers has risen from four to 14 million; more than 5.5 million live […]
Drawing from well-known theories of democracy and democratic transition, this study considers the transition to local democracy in Latin America. It raises a central question: Given the landmark decentralization of the past three decades, what constitutes […]
The much acclaimed Kerala model of health care system (Elamon, Franke and Ekbal, 2004) had faced serious challenges in the mid-1980s and early 1990s due to the dilution of the politics of collective action and […]
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